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Japan/Tokyo panorama images

worufu — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:42:31 +0000

Finally I was able to discover one very important parameter which now allows almost flawless panoramic image stitching. I’ve prepared a Japan panoramic image gallery for you.
More to come in the next days.

Okaerinasai.

worufu — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:17:25 +0000

We are back in Japan. This time for a little less than three weeks and we already enjoyed some days of that long awaited period.

The picture above was shot today when I had some time to play around with the camera while I was waiting for the new haircut of my wife to get completed (about 4 hours). It is a small square with some benches, artistic water installations and some shadow (where I had to hide to protect myself of the burning sun). The place is located between the Imperial Palace (right in the opposite direction from the presented view) and the Tokyo Station (which is behind the big buildings).

As we have internet connection right in the room I already have uploaded some photos of the first days which can be found in the photo gallery Tokyo 2007 album.

Our journey has taken us to many places already: Tokyo Disneyland, Harajuku, Shinjuku, Akihabara, Ueno (where we are staying), Saitama, etc. etc. and there is still some time left. Hooray.
The images in the gallery are just a teaser. Many great shots to follow soon.

More panorama eyecandy

worufu — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:24:38 +0000

Direct access to the panorama gallery. For more technical information read on.

Recently I got excited over panorama images. As my cameras lack fisheye lenses and image stitching software I am using an open source cross-platform solution called hugin. I use hugin as frontend which allows me to use auto pano and pano tools and finally create nice tif images which can be easily used with enblend to create the final stitched image. Then as a last step I use gimp to crop the image and adjust levels, brightness, contrast, etc. At the beginning (as hugin and tools seemed quite troubling and complicated) I used the pandora combine plugin for gimp which worked nicely but as I was looking for more precision I finally figured out how to use the more advanced solution.

To celebrate hugin and tools I created a new page dedicated to panorama views where I will put the newest panorama views from time to time. The gallery uses some JavaScript (tested in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera) to present the images nicely. The raw files of the images can be found here.

A short sign of life

worufu — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:22:47 +0000

No update for a long time. Still busy at work. But business is running fine. And we managed to almost finish our website. Should be online within the next week.

Between meetings and tasks I have been spending all my spare time with getting to know the pre alpine region not far away. Luckily I was carrying a camera with me and so I can provide you with some expressions from the trips:

On Friday we will go to Portugal. Starting from Lisbon we will drive all the way to Porto and be back in about one week. I am very happy my wife managed to plan the whole trip and I am really looking forward to one week without any computer near me. We also booked our big spontaneous trip to Tokyo, Japan in autumn. Three weeks of Tokyo. That is going to be “legendary”.

Tribute to Tokyo

worufu — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:04:59 +0000

Just uploaded a first version of my tribute to Tokyo… My head is still full of additional features which will be implemented soon. But you can already enjoy the images at http://tokyo.desu.at

This was Paris

worufu — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:23:17 +0000

As promised last week here are the photographs of last weeks journey to Paris. The google map link shows our hostel.

Touching the sky

worufu — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:41:28 +0000

This weekend I had the chance to spend some time in the middle of the Austrian Alps. Not for holidays though but for final talks with my partners about our soon to be founded company. We stayed in a small hotel at the “Edelweißspitze” at 2571m above sea level with a great view on Austria’s highest mountain, the “Großglockner” (3798m). Join a short virtual tour in the gallery.

Finland, moi moi

worufu — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:30:32 +0000

Thanks to the star alliance frequent traveller program we were able to spend one amazing weekend abroad. Destination Turku, the former capital of Finland.

After arriving at Helsinki airport we were brought straight to Turku (thank you Susu), where our friend was so kind to give us food and shelter for the whole stay (thank you again Susu). I don’t know where to start as we had so many nice experiences. Piiraka, Pulla, Lakka, Moominworld in Naantali, Finnish sauna, Turku Castle, frozen sea, just to name a view. Images say more than words so I like to invite you to take a look at the Finland album in the gallery (don’t miss the subalbums containing delicious looking and tasting food and some Finnish language/sign curiosities). Here is a short preview:

Once again a very big KIITOS to Susu and her kind family. And not to forget about Charlie the brave warrior of SISU, fighting without any fear against all the rubber-monsters of this planet.

Kiitos, hei hei.

Carneval in Venice

worufu — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:45:28 +0000

Yes… this year we had time… for Carneval in Venice! Luckily there was even time to explore another two Italian cities: Udine and Grado. And last but not least we could take a look at Carneval in Villach.

Visit the image gallery to see some extraordinary masks in Venice and enjoy the panorama from the Campanile tower. Weather was not so nice but Venice is always worth it.

Icy Austria

worufu — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:58:35 +0000

The last weeks it was constantly cold in central Europe and so it continues this week (and probably the next weeks too). Some minutes ago I decided to put some new images into the gallery to show you what it looks like having from -5 to -12?C over a longer period.